Believing he was going to meet a teen girl he'd been sending sexually explicit texts messages to, a 36-year-old man was arrested at a Warehouse District hotel about 6 p.m. Monday, according to authorities. Kevin Edwards, of the 2700 block of Jeanne Street in Marrero, was booked with one count of indecent behavior with a juvenile.

Court records said Edwards had been sending suggestive text messages to an investigator with state Attorney General Buddy Caldwell's Office, who was posing as a 14-year-old girl. Edwards allegedly urged the investigator's persona to touch herself in a sexual manner and asked her what she was wearing.

Edwards once asked if she was wearing purple thong underwear and later messaged her, "You know what I would like to see that nice body in, baby," court records said.

Officials said Edwards asked the undercover detective's persona if she could come down from the Baton Rouge area to spend time with him, and he agreed to meet her at a hotel room in the 300 block of St. Joseph Street. When he showed up, he was arrested and taken to New Orleans' jail without incident, court papers stated.

Police said Edwards admitted he went to the hotel to meet a 14-year-old girl. His bond was set at $10,000, and he had been released from jail by Tuesday night.